I have a webservice and client in c#/dotnet and I am using EnableDecompression to gzip compress the responses that I get from the web server. Is it possible to compress the requests as well?
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Other than that, the only option that comes to mind is manually serializing and compressing large SOAP elements as byte[], then manually decompressing and deserializing on the server (shudder...). The maintenance issues with this approach are likely prohibitive.